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For the next seven days, you can pick up the Castlevania Anniversary Collection as well as the pretty well-regarded puzzle game Snakebird for free on the Epic game store:
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/
Allegedly, Microsoft employs an early-20s chick as the “product manager” for the Xbox brand, which used to be synonymous with dudebros and quite popular but today is quite irrelevant:
While Western game developers are competing about who is able to create the most repulsive female character, South Korea gives us games like The First Descendant, with player characters that look like supermodels (hypermodels?), see below, and which will soon also get jiggle physics. It really is a big mystery why such games are appealing, even if the actual game mechanics are not always impressive.
